NYC Mayor Eric Adams arrives to turn himself in to face charges in federal corruption case

New York Mayor Eric Adams arrived Friday astatine national tribunal successful Manhattan to surrender to authorities aft national prosecutors announced a five-count indictment connected fraud, bribery and corruption charges.

The FBI seized Adams' telephone connected Thursday earlier the charges were made public, according to his attorney, but helium was not instantly taken into custody. 

The mayor, 64, is accused of soliciting amerciable run donations from overseas entities and falsifying insubstantial trails to screen it up, according to a 57-page indictment unsealed Thursday. As portion of the plot, helium allegedly defrauded taxpayers for $10 cardinal implicit the past decennary and often took escaped oregon steeply discounted vacations bankrolled by his overseas benefactors.

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New York City Mayor, Eric Adams arrives astatine national tribunal successful New York City, Friday Sept. 27, 2024. Adams is indicted connected charges pursuing an probe into run corruption.     (Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

Adams countered with a video connection saying immoderate charges filed against him would beryllium "entirely false, based connected lies," and insinuated that his disapproval of the Biden administration's disastrous borderline policies made him a people for retaliation.

"The national authorities did thing arsenic its breached migration policies overloaded our structure strategy with nary relief," helium said successful a video statement. "I enactment the radical of New York earlier enactment and politics."

A NYPD serviceman stands extracurricular Gracie Mansion, the authoritative residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Thursday, Sep. 26, 2024, successful New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Investigators denied the assertion that the lawsuit was governmental retaliation during a Thursday quality briefing.

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Later, Adams held a quality briefing alongside salient supporters who asked for the nationalist to let owed process to play out. Hecklers interrupted with a megaphone.

The politician is accused of 1 number of conspiracy to person run contributions from overseas nationals and perpetrate ligament fraud and bribery, 1 number of ligament fraud, 2 counts of soliciting run contributions from overseas nationals, and 1 number of soliciting and accepting a bribe.

An interior presumption of a suite successful a Turkish edifice provided by the SDNY arsenic portion of the indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. (USAO-SDNY)

He could look up to 45 years successful situation if convicted of each charges. 

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